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Ron Rifkin
1) The Giver
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Every episode from the second season of the hit spy/action series.
"Like watching a 2,000 piece puzzle assembled before your eyes."--Entertainment Weekly.
"Think Bond with feelings, Dostoyevsky with smart bombs."--GQ.
"One of the best shows on television."--Daily News.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Double agent Sydney Bristow faces the greatest challenge of her life when her mother, an enemy long thought dead, turns herself in to the CIA. As family relationships change and Sydney's friends take on new roles, her life becomes even more tangled and dangerous. Sydney fights to reclaim her life and the action builds to a spectacular climax.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Sydney's world is turned upside down when she learns she may work for the very enemy she thought she was fighting. Now she's entangled in a covert lifestyle where she is forced to question the allegiances of everyone, including those closest to her."--Container.
6) The Majestic
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter settles into his life at the Majestic theater, as Luke Trimble,...
9) Dragonfly
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Joe is a physician mourning his wife Emily who died in South America, where she was providing medical outreach. Wracked by grief, Joe feels obligated to check in on his wife's pediatric patients, fulfilling a promise he made before she left. Visiting the ward, Joe starts to believe that Emily is using the near-death experiences of her terminal patients to communicate with him, through images the children report seeing in their dreams, and the symbols...